East Head- Yellow-browed Warbler

Met up with  Marc Read this morning at dawn to give East Head and Snowhill Marsh area a bash. Turned out to be our most successful day of the autumn with Marc finding a Yellow-browed Warbler and we had a Black Redstart, 4 Woodlark, 2 Crossbill, 2 Dartford Warbler and some good vis mig including over 200 Redpoll, 60 Siskin, 4 Yellowhammer and 1200 Wigeon moving south to boot. Ebird list with a few sound recordings from today HERE , 67 species of 2746 indivduals.

We then tried for the Black-necked Grebe at Norton but dipped. A juv Red-thoated Diver was the highlight there with some more Redpolls. When I got there was a flock of 25+ Redpolls on the feeders. 

A very nice little day. Yellow-browed and Crossbill were Peninsula ticks. Now on 203 all time and 186 for the year.  

Yellow-browed Warbler (above and below). Quite a sub-dued foremost wing bar on the left side (invoking thoughts of Hume's) but overall the bird was quite bright and green tinged with more of a wing-bar on the right side too. 

Black Redstart

Redpolls on the move (above) and one in the garden (below). All the ones we saw well today were Lessers. 

Wigeon moving south

Brents building up in Chichester Harbour- about 250 now